Title: Award Nominations for the APHA Annual Meeting

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Section/SPIG: Community Health Planning and Policy Development

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Monica Chan receiving a Past-Chair award from Paul Meissner at the 2004 APHA Annual Conference in Washington, D.C.

Each year, the Community Health Planning and Policy Development Section accepts nominations until April 30 in order to present three awards at its Annual Meeting:

• the Henrik L. Blum Award for Excellence in Health Policy;
• the James R. Kimmey Award for Excellence in Health Planning Practice; and
• the Section Service Award, which is given to a Section member who has made a significant contribution to the Section's operations and/or other activities.

These awards are presented at an Awards Ceremony during the Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association. All Section members are welcome and encouraged to submit nominations for any of these awards.
 
Visit <http://www.ahpanet.org/Awards.html> to review the descriptions of each award, as well as their respective nomination forms. In order to e-mail your nomination, you may copy-and-paste the appropriate form from this Web page into an e-mail message, fill in the blanks, then send it in. Or, you may click of the appropriate title in each award to download a PDF version of the nomination form, print it, type or legibly print the nominee information, then fax it in.
 
Please e-mail or fax completed nomination forms to either:
• Ann Umemoto, Award Chair, at <umemoto@modimes.org>, fax: (914) 997-4501, or
• Tom Piper, Section Chair, at <macquest@mchsi.com>, fax: (573) 751-7894.
 
If you would like more information regarding any of the awards, call either Ann at (914) 997-4496, or Tom at (573) 751-6403.